The leaks of Windows 8.1 Update 1 continues. Everyday, we are coming to know about new feature/tweaks that Microsoft is working on Windows 8.1. Today’s leak reveals couple of significant changes. As you can see in the screenshot above, Microsoft is now adding two new buttons next to user account menu. You now have Search and Power buttons which will allow you to access search and power options. Previously, these two options were hidden in Charms menu. Even though this is good news for users to access these items with ease, I personally think this is adding clutter to the Start screen.

The second significant change is related to right click context sensitive menu. Currently in Windows 8.1, you will have right click options in App bar, but in this Windows 8.1 Update 1 leaked build, you can see that Microsoft is now displaying traditional style right click menu whenever you click it. As you can see in the screenshot above, you now have all App Bar options in the context menu itself. I personally think this is also an unnecessary feature that takes users to old Windows UI paradigm.

A few days back we posted screenshots of early Windows 8.1 2014 Update builds. It revealed one noticeable feature that many were complaining about, you can now pin Windows Store apps to taskbar. If you are among the millions of people who spend most of the time on classic desktop screen and rely on couple of Metro apps, this is a great feature. Apart from that yesterday we posted about the feature in which pinned Windows Store apps in taskbar also supports thumbnail previews. As you can see in the below screenshot, PC Settings page content is displayed in the taskbar preview.